‘We don’t want to overburden business,’ Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says.
UPDATE: PM Hipkins asks people to buy only the groceries they need; Transpower restores some power to Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne.
The organisation expects to learn lessons from the floods, particularly around landslips.
Like other submitters, the council says the new legislation – to replace convoluted existing law – is still too complex.
It is still unclear whether the Government or the insurance industry pays for the urgent need to adapt to climate change.
Tourism Board appears before select committee to discuss performance and outlook.
CIP’s role was not to decide where money should be spent.
Scrapped policy proposals including its biofuels mandate, social insurance scheme, and the planned RNZ-TVNZ merger.
It also rejected suggestions it had been subject to political influence over its investment in Kiwibank.
No-one was spared in the Act Party leader’s annual State of the Nation speech.